Terra Nova School

Terra Nova School
Location

Holmes Chapel , Cheshire , CW4 8BT England
Information
Type	Preparatory day and boarding school
Motto	Labor et ludus
Established	1897
Local authority	Cheshire East
Department for Education URN	111472 Tables
Headmistress	Christabel Westall^[1]
Gender	Coeducational
Age	3 to 13
Enrolment	300~
Website	www.tnschool.co.uk

Terra Nova School is a prep school in Cheshire, England for children from two and a half to thirteen years of age. It began as a school for boys in 1897, and today educates boys and girls.

Children aged two and a half to seven attend the pre-prep school, and pupils aged eight to thirteen attend the prep school.

Since 1939^[2] the school has occupied a site of just over 36 acres (15 ha) including playing fields, in a rural area within the bounds of Holmes Chapel.^[3] At the core of the site is Jodrell Hall, a country house begun in 1779 with additions in 1835.^[4]

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Notable pupils

Will Carling, former Captain of the England Rugby team
Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history
Hamish Watson, Scottish Rugby international
J. G. Farrell, Booker Prize winning writer
Robert Bruce-Gardner, 10 June 1943 - 6 September 2017, Conservator of paintings at the Courtauld Institute ^[5]

References

^ "Our staff". Terra Nova School. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^ "Our heritage". Terra Nova independent school. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
^ "Terra Nova School" (PDF). Independent Schools Inspectorate. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
^ Historic England. "Terra Nova School (1231670)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
^ "Obituary: Sir Robert Bruce-Gardner". The Times. London. 25 October 2017.

External links

Official website
Profile on the ISC website

Schools in Cheshire

Primary

Secondary

Cheshire East	All Hallows RC College Alsager School Brine Leas School Congleton High School Crewe Engineering and Design UTC Eaton Bank Academy The Fallibroome Academy Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Knutsford Academy The Macclesfield Academy Malbank School Middlewich High School The Oaks Academy Poynton High School Ruskin High School St Thomas More RC High School Sandbach High School Sandbach School Shavington Academy Sir William Stanier School Tytherington School Wilmslow High School
Cheshire West & Chester	Bishop Heber High School The Bishops' Blue Coat CE High School Blacon High School Chester RC High School Christleton High School County High School Ellesmere Port Church of England College Ellesmere Port RC High School Hartford High School Helsby High School Neston High School Queen's Park High School Rudheath Senior Academy St Nicholas Catholic High School Tarporley High School Upton-by-Chester High School Weaverham High School The Whitby High School The Winsford Academy
Halton	Blessed Carlo Acutis RC & CE Academy The Grange Academy The Heath School Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy Ormiston Chadwick Academy Ss Peter & Paul RC High School Sandymoor Ormiston Academy Wade Deacon High School
Warrington	Beamont Collegiate Academy Birchwood Community High School Bridgewater High School Cardinal Newman RC High School Culcheth High School Great Sankey High School King's Leadership Academy Warrington Lymm High School Padgate Academy Penketh High School St Gregory's RC High School Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School UTC Warrington

Independent

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Further
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Former

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